post war

RAYMOND BARGER (1906-2001) USA

Sculpture c. 1955

Polychrome contoured wood of interlocking circular forms in white, blue and pink on a bronze base.

Signed: RB (artist initials), USA, Z0I

H: 8 1/2” x L: 12 ¾” x D: 8

Price: $5,800

Raymond Granville Barger was a sculptor working in metal, plastelin, and bronze among other materials. Barger was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology and Yale University School of Fine Art. He received a Winchester Fellowship from Yale, and a special fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Barger moved to California, where he died in 2001.

ALBERTO MARCONETTI  Milan, Italy (active Argentina)

Armchairs (Two available) c. 1960’s

Oak, painted iron, leather strapwork and seat

Marks:  by Alberto Marconetti  (script signature)

H: 40 1/2”  x  W:  27”  x D: 21”
Seat height: 19″

Price: $7,450 (each)

This pair of armchairs nods to the influence of such Italian designers as Carlo Bugatti and Carlo Mollino yet are their own unique creation.  They have an unusual anthropomorphic quality in that the frame suggests a skeletal structure.  In addition, the leather strapwork, iron loops and hooks allude to the equipage of the ancient Roman equestrian order.